Arthur Miller Wrote About Family Loyalty but Turned His Back On His Disabled Son ; Revealed: How for More Than 40 Years the Playwright Refused to See, or Tell Anyone About, a Son He Had 'Put Away' As a Baby...

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His marriage to Marilyn Monroe may have made him famous as 'the man who had all the luck', but Arthur Miller's enduring legacy was his writing.

Frequently hailed as the 20th Cenfamilytury's greatest playwright, he was adored by the liberal Left for his unrivalled insights into the human condition and the breakdown of the in post- war America. Indeed, loyalty and betrayal within the family featured in some his most celebrated works, from Death Of A Salesman to A View From The Bridge and All My Sons.

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Arthur Miller Wrote About Family Loyalty but Turned His Back On His Disabled Son ; Revealed: How for More Than 40 Years the Playwright Refused to See, or Tell Anyone About, a Son He Had 'Put Away' As a Baby...

Yet in the glowing tributes to Miller, who died aged 89 on Thursday, there has been one omission one that even the legendary playwright himself deliberately left out of his revelatory 1987 autobiography Timebends.

Miller, whose work did so much to champion the...

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